About Tryoutpad
A scoring pad for club tryouts: evaluators score player numbers on their phones, and each family gets a private report about their own child.
Why it exists
Twice a year a youth club runs tryouts: twenty to a hundred and fifty children, a few volunteer evaluators with clipboards, and then a weekend of typing scores into a spreadsheet and answering the same question from every family: how did my child do? Scoring by link already exists in many forms. What a club rarely has is a simple, private way to tell each family how their own child was seen, without sharing anyone else's scores. That report is the reason Tryoutpad exists, and it is free.
How it works, briefly
The director signs in with a passkey and sets up the tryout: age groups, a rubric and player numbers. Each evaluator gets a private link and taps a score per criterion for each number. The director sees a rank table per group, with each player's evaluator spread, places players on teams and publishes the reports. Each family scans the code on their slip and sees one report: the average per criterion, the club's next steps, and, if the club wants, the team and the rank.
Numbers, not names
The site never asks for a child's name, birth date, photo, school or contact details, and the free-text boxes refuse email addresses, web addresses and phone numbers. The director keeps the number-to-name sheet on paper. Evaluator links and family codes are stored only as scrambled digests, so a copy of the database would open nothing. A tryout is deleted a year after its date.
Who it is for
A youth football, hockey, basketball or netball club; a dance or gymnastics school picking squads; a swim club grouping lanes; any club that scores children on a few criteria on one day and wants to tell families how it went without a stream of emails.
What it is not
It is not a selection authority: the scores are the averaged views of the club's evaluators on one day, and the club decides. It does not email families or evaluators. Tryoutpad is not affiliated with any league, governing body, club or tryout software company.
Install it
On a phone it can sit on your home screen like an app. On an iPhone or iPad, open the Share menu in Safari and choose Add to Home Screen. On other browsers, use Install in the menu.
Contact
Questions and problem reports go to socialreminderinfo@gmail.com. A report that names the page and what you pressed is the quickest to fix.